The Martian armies continued their advances across the face of the planet. Their early successes against the Lost Worlds tribes led them deeper and deeper into the dark continent, not knowing what they might meet. Several days onto their advance they were confronted with a most ghastly foe... a horde of the most terrifying spiders, well possibly terrifying to we humans, but possibly not to their Martian attackers.
The game was played using our 20mm armies and the Hordes of the Things rules.
The Spider army:
12 x Horde
1 x Hero general
2 x Behemoth
1 x Hero general
2 x Behemoth
The Martian army:
1 x Hero general
1 x Behemoth
4 x Shooters
4 x Blades
1 x Behemoth
4 x Shooters
4 x Blades
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| The Spider horde advances... my first error, it's better to wait close to your stronghold, or baseline, when using a mostly horde army |
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| The spider centre: behemoth, hero general, behemoth |
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| Martian shooters against hordes |
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| The Martian army pushes forward into contact |
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| Ouch ... |
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| The Hordes are recoiled |
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| Hero vs Hero, both are lost (actually our error, as even though the totals were odd, it wasn't a tie... so it oughtn to have been a spider hero general win) |
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| The right spider behemoth pushes the Martian behemoth backwards |
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| Spider hordes are dying, and some are coming back. Because of our error with the hero conflict, both forces were starved of pips. For the spiders this was problematic, as this limited the ability to bring back the hordes |
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| The two spider behemoths are caught in conflict, but .. |
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| One of them is flanked and lost. The Martians have the edge |
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| The casualties are too treat and the spider host is defeated... |
So the Martians have won another victory on the dark continent.. what next?
Great looking armies (and yes, easy to get the ‘hero v hero’ results confused!!).
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